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Lawrence Correctional Center
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Lawrence Correctional Center is a state prison located in Lawrence County, Illinois. Rated capacity: 2,458. Reported population: 2,166. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Lawrence Correctional Center is a maximum security adult male prison of the Illinois Department of Corrections in Sumner, Illinois, approximately 65 miles (105 km) north of Evansville, Indiana. The prison was opened in November 2001 and has an operational capacity of 2,458 prisoners.
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Capacity
2,458
Current population
2,166
Occupancy
88%
Year opened
2001
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
2001
Region
Illinois
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
An inmate at Lawrence Correctional Center reported experiencing unexplainable aggression and discomfort while double-celled with a cellmate for three months, describing an urge to punch him.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
This facility scores 5. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 3 points above national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersReports
- marshall-project24 Mar 2016
arted feeling an unexplainable aggression towards his cellmate. “It was a level of discomfort that I never experienced before,” he wrote in a letter. Fillmore was double celled at Lawrence Correctional Center in Illinois for three months. “I had thoughts of just punching him in the face. Why? I have no idea. I just had the urge to do it.” In 2013, an Ohio man suffering from psychotic delusions
Data completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikipedia category â Prisons in Illinois — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q22023103)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Lawrence Correctional Center. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/lawrence-correctional-center
"Lawrence Correctional Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/lawrence-correctional-center.
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